Medical Treatment—Utilization Review—WCAB affirmed WCJ's order awarding medical treatment in form of assisted living to applicant who incurred permanent total disability as result of industrial injuries, plus Labor Code § 5814 penalty and Labor Code § 5813 attorney’s fees and costs, when … and (4) WCAB concluded that defendant’s failure to diligently act on treating physician’s request for assisted living, causing applicant to be removed from assisted living facility where she had been living for three months and to be dropped off on skid row in downtown Los Angeles, was unreasonable so as to justify 25 percent penalty under Labor Code § 5814.

Petitions for Writ of Review—Final WCAB Orders—Court of Appeal dismissed petition for writ of review, finding that petitioner was appealing WCAB decision that was not final order or decision required by Labor Code § 5901, since…

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